Phil Knight Quotes
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
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My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.
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Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.
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In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
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If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.
